Manifold form



Dec. 26, 1939. c, w ARTM N 2,184,509

MANIFOLD FORM- Filed Nov. 14, 1931 WI/E/VTOR C. W. ZARTMAN Patented Dec. 26, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE to Western Electric Company, Incorporated,

New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 14, 1931, Serial No. 575,050

12 Claims.

the ready removal of the carbon papers from the record sheets.

This and other objects of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which like reference numerals designate similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a continuous manifold record packet embodying a preferred form of the invention, the sheets thereof being somewhat exploded or opened out for clearer disclosure;

F.'g. 2 is a perspective view of one of the individual record sets severed from the record supply packet, showing the multiple carbon sheets partially removed as a unit from the record sheets; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of a modified form of the invention.

The record supply packet shown in the drawing consists of a pile of continuous record sheets 5-5 interleaved with continuous carbon or transfer papers 6-6, which are zigzag folded to form the packet as shown in Fig. 1. The sheets and carbon papers are transversely perforated at their folding lines I and 8 respectively, so that the record packet can be seiLered into individual record sets 9-9 (Fig. 2) after data have been typed thereon.

In order to provide a construction for maintaining alignment and facilitating the quick separation of the carbon papers from the sheets, the upper middle portions of the sheets 5-5 of the individual record sets 9-9 comprising the coinplete manifold record supply packet are provided with removably attached tabs I by cutting the sheets at Il-H to a predetermined depth and scoring or perforating the connecting line 12. The pile of sheets -5 and interleaved carbon papers 6-6 of the manifold are secured together 50 in registered alignment by wire staples 3-l 3- (Cl. zsa-la) bon papers of each individual record set 9 are provided with grip-escaping openings l5.

When an individual record set 9 has passed through the typewriter, billing machine, or the like, and the desired data entered thereon, the 5 particular record set 9 is torn off along the weakened lines of severance 1-8. The record sheets 5-5 and carbon papers 6-6 of each separate record set 9 are held together as a unit by the staple l3, thus expediting further handling and the entering of additional data thereon before the carbon papers are separated from the record sheets. To remove the carbon papers the individual record set 9 is gripped at the tabs 10 by the thumb and finger of one hand and the sheets 5-5 are gripped by the thumb and finger of the other hand at the grip-escaping openings in r the carbon papers 6-6, and by snapping the hands apart the tabs H) are torn along the weakened lines l2 and the multiple carbon papers are quickly and easily separated as a single unit from the original and copy record sheets 5-5. When the next individual record set 9 passes through the typewriting machine, it likewise is torn off along the weakened folding lines 1-8 and since the staple secures the sheets and carbon papers together, the record set may be advantageously routed to various organizations in a business establishment to enter additional data thereon.- The carbons can then be separated from the record sheets by use of the weakened tabs l0 and grip-escaping openings I5 as previously described. v

The lower left hand side of the original or top sheet 5 of each individual record set 9 is provided with a series 7 of designating marks 16 which serve as a guide so that the operator can determine at a glance when the bottom of the sheet is being approached to avoid writing too closely to the bottom edge and to stop typing at the same distance from the bottom of all of the individua. record sets when desirable. Also the carbon papers 6-6 are provided with weakened lines l'l transversely of the middle of each individual record set 9 to expedite the dividing of the used carbonpapers into smaller sheets for continued usein other duplicating work after removal from the record sheets 5-5.

Fig. 3 of the drawing illustrates a modification of the invention in which one corner of each of the record sheets 5-5 of the individual record sets 9 throughout the continuous record supply packet are perforated across at 20 'to provide weakened portions or tabs 2l-2l which are fastened 'to the interleaved carbon papers 6-6 by wire staples 22 or any other suitable securing means; the corners of the interleaved carbon papers opposite thetabs 2l2l of each individual record set 9 being cut away to provide gripescaping openings to facilitate the separation simultaneously of all of the carbon papers from the record sheets in a single drawing movement inthe manner described heretofore for the preferred form of the invention.

The fastening of the sheets 55 to the carbon papers 6-5 in each of the individual record sets 9 throughout the length of the record supply packet by means of the tabs and staples securely retains the carbon papers in exact alignment or registration with the record sheets and thus positively prevents the shifting of the carbon papers and the sheets with relation to each other.

What is claimed is:

m 1. A manifolding record including, in combination, a plurality of record sheets having weakened portions between the lateral edges of the sheets, a plurality of transfer sheets interleaved with the record sheets and having grip-escaping 25 openings, and means for securing the transfer sheets to the weakened portions for alignment and removal of the plurality of transfer sheets from the record sheets in a single withdrawal operation.

3 2. A manifolding record including, in combination, a plurality of record sheets having removably attached portions, a plurality of transfer sheets interleaved with the record sheets and having grip-escaping openings, and means for 35 attaching the transfer sheets and the removably attached portions of the record sheets together whereby they may be withdrawn as a unit in a single snap-apart action.

3. A manifolding record supply packet includ- 40 ing, in combination, a pile of superposed record strips and interleaved transfer strips divided at intervals by registering transverse folding lines of severance, the record strips having removably attached portions on one side of each of the 45 lines of severance and the transfer strips having grip-escaping openings on the other side of each of the lines of severance, and means for fastening the transfer strips and the removably attached portions of the record strips together 50 near the lines of severance.

4. A manifolding record including, in combination, a transfer strip having a longitudinal series of transverse lines of severance and openings on one side of each of the lines of sever- 55 ance, a record strip superposed on the transfer strip and having lines of severance in registration with the severance lines of the transfer strip, the record strip having removably attached portions on the other side of each of the 60 lines of severance, and means for fastening the transfer strip to each of the removably attached portions of the record strip.

5. A record supply packet including, in combination, a pile of sheets'of manifolding paper 5 in contiguous relation, a plurality of the sheets having a longitudinal series of depthwise sets of grip-escaping openings; a plurality of other sheets having removably attached portions depthwise of the pile and longitudinally dis- 7 posed with relation to the grip-escaping openings, each of the sheets having weakened lines of severance in alignment with the edges of the openings and the removably attached portions, respectively, and means for fastening the sheets having the openings to the removably attached portions.

6. A manifolding record including, in combination, an original record sheet, a copy sheet, said sheets having removably attached portions in registered alignment between the lateral edges of the sheets, a transfer sheet interposed therebetween and provided with a grip-escape opening longitudinally displaced from the attached portions, and means for securing the removably attached portions to the transfer sheet.

7. A record form including, in combination, a strip having transverse lines of severance for dividing the strip into sheets, each of said sheets having an opening coincident with a line of severance, a second strip superposed thereon having lines of severance in registered alignment with the severance lines of the first strip and having removably attached portions longitudinally displaced from the said openings, and 0 means for fastening the removably attached portions to the sheets comprising the first strip.

,8. A record strip having transverse lines of severance for dividing the strip into sheets, each of said sheets having a removably attached por- 2 tion adjacent to and substantially extending along a line'of severance, said removable portion being attached to saidsheet along a single weakened tearing line which is offset from the aforesaid line of severance.

9. Superposed record strips divided at given intervals by straight transverse weakening lines to form successive sets of superposed ,record sheets, and a transfer strip between adjacent record strips transversely divided by weakened 85 portions at similar intervals to provide a transfer sheet between adjacent record sheets, the record sheets of each set having registered relatively short weakening lines intercepting a transverse line at two points to provide a detachable 40 binding section, and a staple securing said sheets and the interposed transfer sheet together at the binding section, said transfer sheet at its opposite margin being formed with an edge portion inwardly offset from the adjacent transverse line of the record strips.

10. A record form including, in combination, record strips and transfer strips arranged in alternate manifolding relation, said strips having in alignment a series of transverse weakening lines of severance for dividing the strips into sets of sheets, each of the record sheets having a removably attached tab secured to the transfer sheets adjacent a line of severance, and each of the transfer sheets having an opening adjacent another line of severance and opposite to the removably attached tabs of the record sheets.

11. A record strip having a longitudinal series of transverse weakened tearing lines and having adjacent each of said lines a slitted portion attached to the strip by a weakened tearing line.

12. A manifolding packet, including a pair of record strips, and a carbon strip interposed therebetween, said strips having in alignment a series of transverse lines of severance for separating the strips into individual sets of sheets, each of the record sheets having a tab adjacent a line of severance and attached to the sheet along a weakened tearing line, and each of the carbon sheets having a grip-escape aperture adjacent the other line of severance opposite the tab.

CASTLE W. ZAR'I'MLAN. 

